Maestro bot review: fees, chains, anti-MEV and referrals

Maestro is a multi-chain Telegram trading bot that charges 1% on every successful buy and sell, returns 15% to 30% of that fee as cashback, and pays referrers 25% of their referees’ fees for life. As of September 2026, its docs list twelve chains, the widest spread of the major bots, including Tron and TON. Its main weakness is the one every Telegram bot shares: the bot holds keys that can sign for your wallet.

Here’s what it costs, what it does, how it handles keys, and who should use it.

What is Maestro?

Maestro is a suite of Telegram bots. The main one, the Maestro Sniper Bot, handles manual trades, auto-sniping of new launches, copytrading, limit orders and bridging. Smaller companion bots cover wallet tracking, whale alerts and buy notifications for token communities, and there’s a desktop scraper that pulls contract addresses from Telegram channels.

Maestro has been around since 2023, which makes it one of the older bots still operating. It’s also one of the few that treats EVM chains, Solana, Tron and TON as equals rather than being Solana-first.

Which chains does Maestro support?

The supported chains page lists twelve:

Chain type	Chains
EVM (one wallet works across all)	Ethereum, BSC, Base, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Sonic, Monad, Hyper EVM, Robinhood
Non-EVM	Solana, Tron, TON

The homepage chain list differs slightly and also names Arc, and some third-party reviews quote 14 chains. Check the /chains menu in the bot for the current list before you bridge funds anywhere.

How much does Maestro cost?

The fee structure is simple. The details sit in how and when it’s collected, per Maestro’s fee FAQ.

Item	Cost (as of September 2026)
Buys and sells, manual or automated	1%
Transfers between wallets	Free
Fee collection on Solana	Taken inside the same transaction
Fee collection on other chains	Accrued, then swept once unpaid fees pass a minimum (e.g. 0.5 TON, 1 MON, 10 TRX)
Cashback on the 1% fee	Bronze 15%, Silver 20%, Gold 25%, Diamond 30%
Premium subscription	$200 per month (optional)
Gas, priority tips, token taxes	Paid separately to the network or token

Worked example: you buy 1 ETH of a new token on Base and sell it later for 1.5 ETH. Maestro’s fees are 0.01 ETH on the buy and 0.015 ETH on the sell, 0.025 ETH in total. At the Bronze cashback tier you get 15% of that back (0.00375 ETH), so the net fee is about 0.021 ETH. At Diamond it drops to 0.0175 ETH.

One detail surprises new users. On EVM chains, Tron and TON, the bot doesn’t take the 1% trade by trade. It keeps a tally per Telegram account and later pulls it from whichever of your wallets on that chain has the highest balance. If you see an unexplained transfer to a Maestro fee address, check the fee page before assuming a hack.

Key features

• Auto Snipe: set a buy for a token before liquidity is added. On Solana, snipes can go out as bundles with a backup transaction, both sent privately.
• Anti-MEV: on Ethereum it’s forced on and routes every transaction through a private relay. On Solana it’s a toggle that routes through Jito, Temporal or NextBlock. It’s off by design on the other chains.
• Copytrade: mirror the buys and sells of up to 5 wallets per chain (12 on Premium), with an option to frontrun on chains where that applies.
• Limit orders and trailing stops, including take-profit targets that can account for the gas you paid.
• Safety checks: the bot blocks automated buys when it detects honeypots, blacklist functions or unhealthy liquidity. “Degen Mode” removes that block, which is a setting most people should leave off.
• Bridge and private swaps inside the bot, via Relay or deBridge, with a separate privacy-focused route capped at $50,000 per order.
• Premium ($200 a month): access to the faster Maestro Pro bot, a launch simulator that reads taxes and deadblocks before launch, a trending list, and higher limits on trades, wallets and copytrade slots.

For most traders the free tier is enough. Premium makes sense only if you snipe launches daily and the Pro bot’s speed or the simulator changes your results by more than $200 a month.

How Maestro holds your keys

You can create wallets inside the bot or import existing ones with a private key. Either way, Maestro keeps the key on its servers so it can sign trades the moment you tap a button. Its security FAQ says keys are AES-encrypted.

What that means in practice:

• You’re trusting Maestro’s infrastructure. Encryption at rest protects against a leaked database. It doesn’t protect you if the signing systems themselves are compromised. The bot can move funds from your wallet because that’s how it works.
• The key is shown once. When you generate a wallet, the bot sends the key and seed phrase in a chat message. Maestro advises writing them on paper and deleting the message. If you lose them, the bot can still move funds out while the wallet stays connected. Don’t disconnect a wallet you can’t restore elsewhere.
• Your Telegram account is the password. Anyone who takes over your Telegram session can trade and withdraw. Turn on Telegram two-step verification before funding the bot.
• There’s precedent. In October 2023 a flaw in Maestro’s Router 2 contract let an attacker take around 280 ETH from users. According to Decrypt’s report, Maestro shut it down within about 30 minutes and refunded users 610 ETH, enough to buy back the lost tokens.

The sensible setup is a dedicated trading wallet with only the amount you plan to trade this week, sweeping profits out to a wallet you control. Our guide on whether Telegram trading bots are safe explains the wider risks.

Maestro referral program

Maestro’s referral program has two link types:

• Sticky referral link: earns 25% of the fees of every first-time user who starts the bot through it, for life.
• Quick-Buy link: a token-specific link that opens the token straight in the bot. For a new user it works like a sticky link. For someone already referred by another person, the 25% is split in half between you and their original referrer on trades started through your link.

What the person you refer gets: the docs don’t mention a fee discount for referees. They pay the standard 1% and get the same volume-based cashback as everyone else.

What it’s worth: if someone you refer trades $20,000 a month, they pay $200 in fees and you earn $50 a month for as long as they keep trading.

A few practical limits:

• Earnings aren’t sent automatically. You set a fee wallet for each chain and then tap Send Unpaid Earnings. Maestro covers the gas only when the amount and network fees are within stated limits.
• Only users starting the bot for the first time count toward sticky referrals.
• Maestro sometimes runs promotions that raise the percentage, and high-volume referrers can ask its marketing team for a custom rate.

Who is Maestro for?

Good fit:

• Traders who move between Ethereum, Base, BSC and newer EVM chains and want one bot for all of them.
• People trading on Tron or TON, where fewer big bots operate.
• Snipers on Ethereum, where forced private routing removes one common mistake.

Probably skip it if:

• You only trade Solana memecoins. A Solana-first bot like Trojan or a web terminal (see our Axiom review) offers deeper Solana tooling.
• You trade large sizes on Ethereum only. Banana Gun’s 0.5% fee on manual Ethereum trades is half of Maestro’s.
• You aren’t comfortable with a service being able to sign for your wallet.

Downsides

• 1% on every trade adds up. Even at the top cashback tier you pay 0.7% net per side.
• Deferred fee sweeps on non-Solana chains can confuse you and pull from a wallet you didn’t expect.
• Premium is expensive at $200 a month and doesn’t lower the fee.
• Chat-based interface: everything runs through menus and buttons in Telegram, which gets cluttered when you manage many positions.
• No referee discount, unlike some competitors.

Verdict

Maestro is the most chain-diverse of the established Telegram bots, with sensible defaults such as mandatory anti-MEV on Ethereum and automatic honeypot blocking. Its history includes one serious exploit that ended in a full refund. The 1% fee is standard for the category, and the cashback tiers take some of the sting out.

If you trade across several EVM chains, Tron or TON, it’s a solid default. Open Maestro from its official site (fake bot usernames are common), generate a fresh wallet, write the key down on paper and fund it with only what you’re prepared to trade. To see how it compares on fees and MEV protection, read our best Telegram trading bots ranking.